TriMech Enterprise
Interview with Adam Bannaghan: What is PLM?
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Speaker 1: So PLM is product life cycle management, which is actually managing the product from the early requirements all the way through to maufacturing and even through to recycling from cradle to grave, some people call it. So PDM is traditionally what we'd use in the drawing or design engineering office, which is management of CAD files, maybe simulation data and word, document. Whereas PLM is beyond that. It takes in requirements, whether it's from marketing whether it's from customers all the way through to manufacturing and beyond. So a company would consider PLM over PDM when they've either outgrown what they want to do or reach out beyond the engineering department. PLM can introduce the manufacturing bill of material, then communicate to the ERP systems and you can also do advanced planning scheduling, project management. To implement PLM. Firstly, don't try and do it yourself. Contact the experts always look at where you are today with the base line of what your company is, do it in small bite-sized chunks, but always have a vision start small and grow large and look at the future. What your vision is. You must always have a plan on the path to actually get there. That totally depends on the scope of what the PLM implementation is. It varies from industry to industry. Again, whether you're on cloud, whether you're on premise, whether you're multi-site, whether you're across the world in different locations. So you can have things from project sponsor, which you always need something top down, push then project managers. If you've got multi-sites and then maybe the key champions that sponsor and get involved in the implementation.